SharedMediaAdditionalFonts
Inserts more than 25 additional fonts into LibSharedMedia's storage.
LibSharedMedia is used as a library in other addons to add resources such as fonts, sounds, images, ... By installing SharedMediaAdditionalFonts, you add fonts to the list of fonts provided by LibSharedMedia to these addons. If your other addons do not use LibSharedMedia, this addon (SharedMediaAdditionalFonts) doesn't do anything.
List of popular addons that use LibSharedMedia:
- Grid
- Recount / Skada
- Prat
- WeakAuras
- Omen
- Quartz
- ...
Awesome! As a side note, if you want the font to be added to the addon itself, so your configuration does not get overridden after each update, let me know which font you want to add and I'll review it and potentially add it if licensing is fine and it supports most characters :)
I love Arial Narrow, but it's too, well, narrow. If plain ol' Arial and Arial Bold could be added, that would be amazing!
Also, thanks for your great work!
I'd like to see Doris PP as a font for WoW. I know, it sounds funny to say aloud, but it's so clean and slim, even when I make the font really small.
http://www.dafont.com/doris-pp.font
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You're not posting on the right AddOn :P
Hi, I have the same problem with inactive fonts... Another addon font adds...
What?
I've no idea how to get this work, isn't there a "step-by-step" for dummies or something?
Well there is nothing to do. You install this addon, and its fonts are automatically added to any other addon that uses SharedMedia. For example, Grid uses it; so you would get additional fonts there. A million other addons use it too :-)
Hello!
I was wondering about the issue between recount and SharedMedia.
I'm not able to get any more fonts into Recount more than the orignial ones ( http://oi62.tinypic.com/686g03.jpg )
I have SharedMedia, SharedMedia: Renaitre and SharedMediaAdditionalFonts downloaded but nothing seem to work. You think you can figure out what's wrong?
I believe this is a problem with Recount where it doesn't use a shared media font library but only the ones that it provides for itself. Not 100% sure though.
Hummmm actually, Recount does use LibSharedMedia-3.0. Let me give it a look tonight.
Well it works on my computer: http://i57.tinypic.com/29uztrk.jpg
Are you sure you have installed the addon correctly?
So do i just install this addon and it works, is there anything else i need to install and is there an in-game menu to choose which font's we want?
This should work by itself. Fonts should be available for addons that support SharedMedia in any font selector they provide.
So far so good! Pretty much all of the fonts I've thrown in have had no problems thus far, with the exception of one: the Myriad Pro font family. It's listed in the game when I pull up font selection menus, but the fonts don't change when I select it. Any idea why?
Also, do you have any more suggestions for sans-serif fonts? I'm looking for something that isn't quite as stylized as the default font, and I don't want to use something plain-looking like Helvetica or Arial. And some of my favorite sans serif fonts, like Futura and Segoe, don't look all that great since there's no good in-game font-smoothing.
Edit: WOW, I am dumb. The Myriad Pro files were OTF instead of TTF. Good grief, I need to pay attention before I ask questions.
Is it possible for me to add my own legally-owned fonts to this addon? I dropped them in the Fonts folder, but they're not showing up in-game.
Edit: Never mind, it's in the LUA. Derp!
I was about to reply to you ;) If you have any problem adding the font, please tell me!
Or can we get something similar?
Well it's possible if you find a licence that allows us to use it. If it's Blizzard made, I guess they wouldn't really mind us using it (not really fair use but "cool philosophy"), however I fear that the font does not support accentuated characters, such as à, é, è, ... These are used a lot by other languages, and I won't add a font that is not international (legacy fonts that do not support that are still in the addon because... they're legacy).
You can however very simply add a font to the addon: add it to its 'fonts' folder, and then edit the SharedMediaAdditionalFonts.lua file. It should be pretty straightforward ;) Note however that it will be overriden each time you update the addon. It shouldn't happen often, however (fonts are not added very often).